Re: Problem with origin server connections

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:45:31 +0100

How are you making Squid distribute the requests on the backend
servers?

Regards
Henrik

On Monday 10 March 2003 22.13, David Nicklay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Brian and I have been trying to puzzle out a problem we are having
> related to back end origin server connections initiated by squid.
> We have squid (2.5.stable1) set up in a reverse proxy configuration
> pointing at a group of origin servers which mount a number of NFS
> mounts to serve content from. What we are seeing is that when one
> of those NFS mount points locks up on the origin server, it will
> cause a seemingly permanent change to the number of connections and
> back end refreshes that the squid servers are sending to the
> origins. Restarting the squid listeners fixes it, but if we do not
> restart them, the number of connections and refreshes never returns
> to its normal state. This is true even if the NFS mount point
> comes back and the origin servers are restarted.
>
> I have seen this go on for over a day, when all of our timeouts are
> set in minutes and seconds not hours or days. I am curious to know
> why this behavior exists, and if there is anything that could be
> done about it? I am asking here rather than the squid user list,
> because I think it may be something fundamental to the way squid
> works and not a configuration issue.
Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 14:45:38 MST

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